Hey guys, sorry about the lateness of getting the next matches out, work/famly commitments have made it hard to get on here and constantly put up new threads

 

Thats why instead of doing 4 matches each time, i'm just gonna have a thread of 16 matches open for 3-4 days. Hope it doesn't look too overbearing.

 

Match 49 – #1 – The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Vs #256 – Blow (2001)

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

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The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s.

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Match 50 – #128 – The Big Lewbowski (1998) Vs #129 The Kid (1921)

“Dude” Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

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The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.

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Match 51 – #32 – Leon: The Professional (1994) Vs #225 – All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)

A professional assassin rescues a teenage girl whose parents were killed in a police raid.

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A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

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Match 52 – #97 The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) Vs #160 – Life Of Brian (1979)

After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of

a railway bridge for their captors – while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

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Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

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Match 53 – #33 – Sunset Blvd. (1950) Vs #224 – In The Name Of The Father (1993)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

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Man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn't do imprisons his father as well; a British lawyer helps fight for their freedom.

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Match 54 – #16 – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) Vs #241 – Ed Wood (1994)

Luke Skywalker, a spirited farm boy, joins rebel forces to save Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the

Empire's planet-destroying Death Star.

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The mostly true story of the legendary director of awful movies and his strange group of friends and actors.

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Match 55 – #49 – Vertigo (1958) Vs #208 – Roman Holiday (1953)

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all

the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

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A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

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Match 56 – #80 – Once Upon A Time In America (1984) Vs #177 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and

regrets of his old life.

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A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.

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Match 57 – #112 – The Elephant Man (1980) Vs #145 – Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his

monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

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Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing

half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.

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Match 58 – #121 – Rebecca (1940) Vs #136 – Jaws (1975)

When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife

maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.

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When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled

fisherman set out to stop it.

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Match 59 – #72 – Requiem For A Dream (2000) Vs #185 – Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger.

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A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is

arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows

the answers.

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Match 60 – #104 – Downfall (2004) Vs #153 – Casino (1995)

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

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Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.

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Match 61 – #40 – North By Northwest (1959) Vs #217 – Harvey (1950)

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the

country while he looks for a way to survive.

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Elwood P. Dowd is a mild-mannered, pleasant man, who just happens (he says) to have an invisible friend resembling a 6-foot rabbit.

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Match 62 – #56 – Double Indemnity (1944) Vs #201 – A Beautiful Mind (2001)

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

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After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.

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Match 63 – #73 – The Third Man (1949) Vs #184 – Mary And Max (2009)

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend,

black-market opportunist Harry Lime.

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A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a

forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

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Match 64 – #105 – Witness For The Prosecution (1957) Vs #152 – The King's Speech (2010)

Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise.

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The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure

monarch become worthy of it.

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Voting will be open for at least 72 hours. GOGOGOGOGO!!